<< It lists train 509 from Kingston at Oneonta at 12:55 p.m. daily. It lists a southbound counterpart leaving Oneonta at 10:40 a.m.. Does anyone know if these times were still accurate in 1947?
>> The U&D (and the Catskill Mountain Branch) was an east-west railroad. In 1934, depending on whether it was summer or winter, 509 and 510 were the local passenger trains, and the milk train was 527 and 528. 527 left Kingston around 6:00 a.m. with empty milk cars and a coach, and it usually met 528, the eastward milk train, somewhere between South Gilboa and Bloomville.
When 509 and 510 (or 512) operated, usually for the summer season, they carried mail, express and passengers and operated on something like the schedule you show. 527 and 528 didn't carry passengers in the summer, so they did not appear in the public timetable. For some winter seasons, NYC scheduled 509 and 528, with both of them handling milk, mail, express and passengers on the same general schedule that 527 and 528 used in the summer. To reach Stamford in the winter from Weehawken, you had to catch a West Shore train aroung 2:00 a.m. That was it.
<< Does anyone have or know of a timetable from that year?
>> Yes.
<< What types of cars were used on the trains and what was the consist?
>> Milk cars (on 527/528 and on 509 when it carried milk cars), an RPO/mail storage combine, and a baggage/coach combine.
<< Also, does anyone know the freight timetable for the line?
>> Freight trains always ran extra. Sometimes they were a day job, but for about a year around 1958 they ran at night.
<< Were freights dispatched through from Kingston to Oneonta that late in the game?
>> Yes. Until the CMB was cut back to Bloomville in 1965, KO-1 ran Kingston-Oneonta on Monday - Wednesday - Friday, and returned to Kingston the following day. Most of the freight traffic came through Kingston, and the train was usually short by the time it reached Oneonta. Most of the NYC/D&H interchange at Oneonta was anthracite for local delivery, but I remember one movement of a transformer on a flat car for Arkville that was too high or heavy for Bridge C-9 just west of Kingston.
<< When did through passenger service cease?
>> March 31, 1954 was the last trip. By then the trains were numbered 527 and 528, but they didn't handle any milk after about 1950 or 1951. The trains made a round trip Kingston - Oneonta and return daily except Sunday. The usual consist was an 8100 (Alco RS-1), one RPO/mail storage combine, and a baggage/coach combine. The last trip had a much larger train with Engine 8328, an Alco RS-3.
<< I know that is a lot of questions but I am always grateful for replies. Thanks.
>> You got it.